Provincial Journalism Contest awards the best of 2025.

The press, in its quest to reflect the most significant events of our daily lives and to glimpse, along the way, those life stories worth telling, feels proud when its professionals dignify it with quality work, as our public deserves. This is the case with the Ubiquel Arévalo Morales Provincial Journalism Contest, held in Las Tunas, whose 2025 winners were recently announced.

Young rapper Marcos Rafael García Valera (Mason).

The young Marcos Rafael García Valera, better known as Mason, won the First National Cuba Freestyle Festival, held in Havana. He triumphed over 11 other competitors from ten provinces across the country.

Expert and passionate hands sustain the most sublime encounter: that of the work of art with the heart of its audience.

Culture, that vibrant ecosystem that nourishes our souls, is a vast and complex experience. It is not an accident of the muse, but a tapestry delicately woven by expert and passionate hands, some of which operate in the fertile silence “behind the scenes”; barely known faces that sustain the most sublime encounter: that of the work of art with the heart of its audience.

Violin professor Miguel Alejandro Figueroa Reyes.

At the El Cucalambé Professional School of Art (EPA), every morning begins with the rustling of bows on strings, the youthful voices reviewing solfège, and the murmur of students preparing for a new day. There, among music stands and scores, an atmosphere permeates the air where passion transforms classes into a space of discovery.

Elva Rabelo Guerrero.

Elva Rabelo Guerrero, the protocol and visitor services manager at the Las Tunas Provincial Directorate of Culture, occupies one of those vital positions in the cultural machinery that, due to their discreet nature, often operate behind the scenes.